Perfecting her inner world on native soil

  • 2003-02-06
  • Darius James Ross
After her strong criticism of the heavy-handed quashing of pro-Tibet demonstrators last June, Jurga Ivanauskaite, Lithuania's most visible female activist and writer of steamy sex-novels, is back on the scene again. Since the 1993 publication of her novel "The Rain Witch," a love story as recounted by three women that was subsequently restricted to sex shops for its intensely erotic passages, Ivanauskaite has been at the eye of Lithuania's post-Soviet literary storm. The novel has since been reprinted and is selling briskly, while three print runs of the German translation have already sold...
 
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